Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Shearwater at LPR in 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Shearwater will be touring this year, including a previously-mentioned NYC show on February 6 at Mercury Lounge with Jib Kidder. Tickets for that show are still available, but the band... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for The Cure and The Twilight Sad's third show at MSG go on sale at 9 AM. Tickets for the Muse show at Barclays Center go on sale at 10 AM. Tickets for the Grace Potter shows at... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Windhand's show at Gramercy Theatre is tonight. Tickets are still available and we're also giving away a pair. Tickets for the Muse show at Barclays go on AmEx presale today at 10 AM. Tickets for the Greg Dulli show... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Shearwater are back with a new album, Jet Plane and Oxbow, which will be out via Sub Pop on January 22. Frontman Jonathan Meiburg and producer/engineer Reisch (the team behind 2012's Animal Joy and 2014's loose covers/collaborations LP, Fellow... more info

Stereogum — Austin rockers Shearwater have announced the release of a new album called Jet Plane And Oxbow, the follow-up to 2012’s Animal Joy and 2013’s covers comp Fellow Travelers. It features contributions from composer Brian Reitzell (best known for his... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Will Sheff getting ready to drone at Death by Audio in October (via BV Instagram) Okkervill River frontman, former Shearwater member, Roky Erickson collaborator, Rock*A*Teens superfan, and all around cool guy Will Sheff will play a one-off NYC show T... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater have been going in on the covers lately. Last year, Jonathan Meiburg’s Texan indie impressionists earned an Album Of The Week designation for their all-covers collection Fellow Travelers, and they also took on Frank Ocean’s “Novacane... more info

Sweeping The Nation — Albums there are dates for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Wigout At Jagbags (6th January)Broken Bells – After The Disco (13th January)East India Youth - Total Strife Forever (13th January)I Break Horses - Chiaroscuro (20th January)Mogwai - Rave Ta... more info

KEXP Seattle — Shearwater need not worry: they’re “not turning into a cover band”. So says principle songwriter Jonathan Meiburg, who recently performed a set of covers live in the KEXP studio. Their new album, Fellow Travelers, in fact, consists exclusively ... more info

Consequence of Sound — A woozy and unnerving experience. more info